Déjà Dup Backups adding Rclone support, request for testing

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For a while now, folks have been asking for various cloud storage support options in Déjà Dup. Options like S3, B2, Dropbox, Proton Drive, etc.

I’ve resisted adding support in a piecemeal manner, preferring to stick to the consumer cloud options that GNOME also supports. But now that Déjà Dup relies on Rclone internally for cloud connections, it seemed easier to support a wide world of options without too much UI fuss.

As of now in the nightly builds, you can help test support for any Rclone remote. Go to your preferences, choose Rclone as your storage location and enter a remote and folder.

Note that we support an encrypted config file too - we’ll prompt for the password with an option to save it in the keyring.

Thanks for any testing you can manage! And even if you don’t, you can play with it when 48.0 comes out.

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Thanks for adding this feature. I tested this by installing the DejaDup nightly flatpak on Fedora 41. I already had an rclone Box remote configured and working called “box:”. When I ran DejaDup and specified the remote name, it wasn’t clear if I should specify it with the “:” or not. But it didn’t matter how I specified it, I always got the following error:
repository does not exist: unable to open config file: <config/> does not exist

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I also tried just backing up a local folder $HOME/backup-test to another local folder /images/test and when I kicked off the backup, I got the following error:
repository does not exist: unable to open config file: stat file:///images/test/config: no such file or directory

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Guh, thank you for the testing and reporting it! :pray:

I had a bone-headed error in some last minute changes I made, which meant that starting a new backup didn’t work. Ahem. Try again, with latest nightly?

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This is fantastic news! Thank you for adding Rclone support to Déja Dup Backups (nightly). That’s going to open up a lot more options for users like me.

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